35 Detainees are still not allowed to be engaged in work and to be involved in the social and cultural activities. Despite the NPM recommendations, engagement of detainees in working activities is still not allowed, nor are they involved in any social or cultural activities. Likewise, there are no sufficient conditions for physical activates, particularly during the poor weather conditions. The NMP, alike in the previous reports, stressed the problem related to the system for the enforcement of detention measures in Serbia, i.e., the fact that detainees are locked in their cells/ sleeping rooms for the whole day, without any possibility to take part in any other activities. Material accommodation conditions in most of detention units are still not harmonized with the applicable standards. As also stressed in the previous reporting period, material accommodation conditions and other living conditions of detainees in certain detentions units are still not aligned with the applicable standards, they are not allowed a space in sleeping rooms of at least eight cubic meters and four square meters. Certain rooms within the detention units are in the extremely poor condition, with ruined toilet fixtures, dirty, non-aired rooms with insufficient inflow of natural light and unsatisfactory artificial lightning. In line with the NPM recommendations, DP Belgrade moved its female detainees in one of the two blocks, thereby enabling them more adequate accommodation conditions and fulfilment of their right to information. In the course of the visit to DP Belgrade, NPM established that the female detainees were in particularly poor position, primarily due to very poor accommodation conditions. Besides, due to some technical problems, they could not use TV or radio, which constituted violation of their right to information. Complying with the recommendations of the NPM, DP Belgrade moved its female detainees in one of two blocks where they can use TV and radio, which also has more adequate accommodations conditions. Besides, while complying with the NPM recommendations, DP Belgrade rectified the problem related to inadequate hygiene packages dedicated to women. The scenario that due to a small number of female detainees they mostly spend their detention measures in solitary confinement, i.e. in isolation is still common. Due to a relatively small number of female detainees in certain detention units, they are very often isolated, i.e., are placed in solitary confinement for a longer period of time. By doing so, what constitutes a disciplinary measure for persons serving their prison terms, it very often for women detainees constitutes the way they serve their detention measures.

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